Different Approaches: A Retrospective

Just on 2 weeks to go now till the opening night at Gaffa Gallery from 6 – 8pm on Thursday 25 June 2015 for this joint retrospective exhibition with fellow artist, Michael Hogan. This week I spent an afternoon at Gaffa in my capacity as one of their volunteers to help install one of the current exhibitions. All very good experience as Michael and I have to install our own work and ours is the next installation coming up! The exhibition will feature a diverse range of work we have both created over the last 15 years and all the artwork will be for sale during the 2 weeks the exhibition is running from 25 June to 6 July. Here is one of the images that will appear in this exhibition.

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Liquid Life

Although getting organised for the other joint June/July exhibition mentioned above has been taking most of my time for the last few months, I have still been working on various ideas for this exhibition and will be able to seriously get into working on it in the next couple of weeks. The theme of this joint exhibition with fellow artist, Tracey Scheitel, is anything at all relating to water, whether it be water plants or creatures, how we use water, the sea and other waterways etc, so no shortage of areas to draw inspiration from. The image below is one that will be appearing in the exhibition and is a watercolour impression of Soldiers Beach which I sent this week along with a short description to the Central Coast free publication, iMag, to help with promotion of the exhibition. The exhibition will be opening on Tuesday 1 September 2015 at the Shorethyme Restaurant/Gallery at Norah Head on the NSW Central Coast.

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Different Approaches: A Retrospective Exhibition 25 June – 6 July 2015

The final decisions have been made about which pieces from over the last 15 years I will be showing in this exhibition and everything is now back from the framer in readiness for the opening night at Gaffa Gallery on Thursday 25 June 2015. My artwork for the opening night invitations was sent to the printer today and the next stage is to get all the details together for all these artworks to organise the information for the gallery room sheet.

As with the usual arrangements Gaffa has with their exhibiting artists, Michael and I will be required to install all our own works the day before the exhibition opens. To help with this I have put my name down as a volunteer at Gaffa and last night attended the Volunteer Induction evening at the gallery run by the Gaffa staff. Part of the evening was devoted to the process of installing and destalling exhibitions so it was all very useful experience.

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Liquid Life Exhibition 1 – 13 September 2015

Over the last few weeks I’ve been working on some artwork for this exhibition, mainly watercolours at the moment, but have lots of ideas and am continuing to collect all kinds of useful reference material. The theme for this joint exhibition is anything at all relating to water, whether it be water plants or creatures, how we use water, the sea and other waterways, and a myriad of other sources so plenty of areas to draw inspiration from. This exhibition will have it’s opening night on Tuesday 1 September 2015 at the Shorethyme Restaurant/Gallery at Norah Head on the NSW Central Coast.

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